Children’s everyday skills such as keeping track of relevant information grew slower than normal during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a newly published paper.
Researchers with the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health analyzed the executive function skills of 3,107 children in Massachusetts from 2018 to 2023. Executive function covers a variety of skills, including retaining information and keeping track of relevant information across multiple tasks. It usually grows sharply during early childhood.
